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DESCRIPTION:introduction\nIn a poor Moravian village oppressed by the yoke
of social exclusion\, Jenůfa finds herself pregnant by Števa who then ab
andons her. Števa’s half-brother Laca has been in love with Jenůfa sin
ce childhood and believes Števa is unworthy of her. However\, in a fit of
jealousy Laca attacks and disfigures her. The child is born and Števa re
fuses to take responsibility for it. Still enraptured by Jenůfa\, Laca ag
rees to marry her. For fear of letting such a perfect solution slip throug
h her fingers\, Jenůfa’s adoptive mother Kostelnička tells him that th
e child has died. Kostelnička is then faced with having to make the lie t
rue....\nLeoš Janáček\n“I would bind Jenůfa with the black ribbon of
the long illness\, pain and sighing of my daughter Olga and my little boy
Vladimir.” Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) wrote Jenůfa during the most he
artrending period in his life – when his marriage broke down and he lost
his daughter to typhoid fever. Jenůfa was the result of a personal and a
rtistic struggle. The work was given in Brno in 1904\, but only with its p
remière in Prague in 1916 could the composer speak of real success for th
e first time in his life. Janáček drew inspiration for Jenůfa from the
play Jejipastorkyna by Gabriela Preissová (1862- 1946) who with her reali
stic short stories and dramas about village life in Moravia occupies a sma
ll but important place in Czech literature. When Janáček set to work wit
h Preissová\, he was still an unknown choirmaster and teacher. He came fr
om the Moravian village of Hukvaldy in a region that was (and still is) a
veritable natural paradise and it left a lasting impression on the compose
r and provided the setting for several of his operas. His awakening to the
richness of Moravian folk music was also essential to his work. Even befo
re the Hungarian researchers-composers Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók\,
Janáček carried out pioneering scientific studies into folk music and i
t led to his highly individual style: rather than wrapping national folklo
re in a cloak of romanticism\, he used it to create a reality tinged with
rawness. In this concise and direct tone language we also find old forms f
rom the Slavonic liturgy and the musical richness of natural human speech\
, “the opera in prose”. Jenůfa is an example of this ‘speech melody
’ and heralds the relatively high vocal register of Janáček’s subseq
uent operas.
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LOCATION:De Munt / La Monnaie
SUMMARY:Jenůfa - Opera
URL:http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/opera/339/Jenufa
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